Agatha Christie quotes - page 6

To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains. (Agatha Christie)
Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived. View quote
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It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down. View quote
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One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late. View quote
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It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot. View quote
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Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret. View quote
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Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget. View quote
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There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well. View quote
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I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas. View quote
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At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true. View quote
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Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness. (Agatha Christie)
If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid. View quote
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You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories. View quote
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There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands. View quote
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It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance. View quote
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It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial. View quote
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Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored. View quote
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Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN. View quote
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The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows. View quote
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These little grey cells. It is up to them. View quote
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I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate. (Agatha Christie)
I am all that there is of the most real. View quote
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To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived. View quote
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Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush! View quote
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One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again. View quote
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